Her eyes were already filled with tears.
“Are you… a vampire or not?”
“Why is it so painful when you suck my blood? It’s different from what the books say…”
Fangs scraped against delicate skin, and in moments, blood so sweet it was intoxicating seeped from the wound.
This indeed was not the normal way a vampire should drink blood.
After all, Lilique didn’t actually know how to suck blood.
So this was her self-created “skin-biting blood drinking method”!
And the price of doing this was obvious…
Lilique only felt the girl struggle even more fiercely.
“Ow… ow ow… let go, I—I take it back!”
A faint fragrance mixed with the sweet scent of blood lingered at the tip of her nose.
The sweet blood stimulated her taste buds, along with the prey’s perfectly timed struggling…
Lilique felt that she had truly experienced the thrill of the hunt with Luwei.
This feeling was completely different from any previous feeding experience!
As the Vampire Princess, Lilique had tried all kinds of blood meals—strong, sturdy, young and beautiful—
But none of them had excited her as much as the small cry of pain from the girl beneath her…
Lilique wanted to fully immerse herself in the pleasure of the moment.
Even though she had lost her ability to suck blood, the satisfaction brought by this mere “hunting behavior” was worth more than ten thousand feedings!
After an unknown amount of time…
Lilique licked her lips, still wanting more.
Looking at the silver-haired girl in front of her, her eyes brimming with tears—she had even given up struggling, just tightly pursing her lips and enduring silently.
Lilique suddenly felt a bit guilty.
Normal bloodsucking would never hurt this much.
But of course, Lilique wouldn’t reveal the secret that she couldn’t drink blood.
“Did you do that on purpose?”
Before she could figure out how to explain, a reproachful accusation fell on Lilique’s head.
“Of—of course it was on purpose! Hmph hmph!”
Lilique admitted it outright.
It was better to leave Luwei with the impression of being malicious than to be found out that she couldn’t suck blood.
“I won’t bully you for nothing…”
She paused, as if thinking of a solution.
“I’ll take care of Cecilia’s matter entirely.”
Since she had hurt her, she should give some compensation.
“Don’t worry, the result will definitely satisfy you!” she declared, lifting her head.
But upon hearing her promise, the resentment in Luwei’s eyes didn’t diminish at all.
‘Damn it… Isn’t this something you should have done in the first place?’
Her neck was already numb from pain, covered in red marks and small wounds.
Lilique was practically using her as a chew toy!
And once she got into the bloodsucking, she didn’t listen to anything…
Her throat had gone hoarse from shouting earlier, but this one showed no sign of letting go.
Luwei felt a chill.
She didn’t even want to think about what would happen next time—would she be completely drained dry?
After some thought, Luwei decided to create a secret weapon to deal with Lilique—a High-grade Life Potion!
For some reason, the Life Potion had an extremely strong appeal to Lilique.
Luwei pondered for a while and eventually told this observation to Monet.
For now, the Life Potion was still not on sale to the public.
Because the impact the Life Potion would have on the potion market was expected to be even greater than that of the Giant Strength Potion!
They had to conduct thorough market research, formulate a release plan, and weigh the pros and cons.
As for Lilique’s preference for the Life Potion…
If the Life Potion generally attracted vampires, it would undoubtedly increase its value!
To verify this, the resourceful Monet managed to contact quite a few vampires, from blood slaves to ordinary ones—a substantial sample size.
But unfortunately, none of these vampires showed any particular reaction to the Life Potion.
Luwei could only guess it was due to Lilique’s bloodline.
After all, Lilique was so different from those legendary vampires.
She could go out in the sun casually, wasn’t afraid of silver objects, could go weeks without drinking blood, and even her body temperature was no different from a normal human’s.
It was a good thing she had this weakness of the Life Potion; otherwise, Luwei wouldn’t know how to deal with her.
‘Hmph, let you bite me…’
‘A Low-grade Life Potion can already make Lilique dizzy like catnip.’
‘If it were a High-grade Life Potion… I bet one sniff would make her roll her eyes and blow bubbles!’
Luwei decided to prioritize making the High-grade Life Potion.
And besides using it against Lilique, the High-grade Life Potion itself was ridiculously powerful.
It could almost be described as a life-saving artifact!
According to the recipe introduction, the High-grade Life Potion was a 7th-grade potion, and at that level, its value already reached several thousand gold coins.
Its specific effects were also astonishing—it could regenerate severed limbs and grow flesh on bones, no exaggeration.
If the target’s life level was not high, for example if the user was just an ordinary person… then the potent effect could even bring someone back to life who had been dead for several days.
It wasn’t hard to imagine that with such terrifying effects, its value would far exceed ordinary 7th-grade potions.
It could sell for tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of gold coins at auction!
It was essentially buying a life from the Grim Reaper with gold coins.
The only problem was…
Refining a High-grade Life Potion required too many high-tier materials, most of which were simply priceless and extremely rare.
At the same time, it was difficult to refine and impossible to mass-produce.
Luwei pondered that the value of the High-grade Life Potion was extremely high.
Even if not sold, just using it for her own people would be of great significance.
“We could send Shuangna to find these materials,” she said.
Shuangna had previously been spending her energy on searching for low-tier materials, which was a complete waste of her talent…
Now that the Kares family was no longer short of money, Shuangna’s goal should turn to these high-tier materials that were rarely seen on the market.
It was already very late, and Luwei returned to her room.
At her bedroom door, she saw Floxi, whose face was full of concern.
“It’s so late… haven’t you rested yet?”
Luwei asked.
For some reason, being caught by Floxi made Luwei feel a strange sense of shame.
Especially when Floxi silently and gently helped her bathe and change clothes, and applied medicine to her wounds…
Luwei felt even more awkward!
The little maid watched her master sacrifice her body for the sake of the family.
She felt distressed but powerless to change it, only able to offer her care when her master returned home exhausted…
This plot development… had a strange island-country vibe?
After sending Floxi off, Luwei lay back on her velvet king-size bed.
Looking at the tranquil moonlight outside the window, she reviewed her entire plan…
Now that Lilique had agreed to deal with Cecilia’s mess, Luwei could finally divert her attention to other matters.
First, the release of the Giant Strength Potion had been a great success, as expected.
The first batch, totaling 1,000 bottles of Giant Strength Potion, was sold.
The Kares family directly paid off all their debts and still had 20,000 gold coins left over.
But Luwei knew well that such terrifying profits would not last long.
The potion workshop owners of other factions were not fools; they would never sit by and watch the Kares family take such a huge share of the profits.
This release seemed to have earned astonishing benefits, but if they couldn’t formulate a follow-up strategy, other factions would resort to any means to target the Kares family.
For example, hiring professional alchemists to try to crack the potion recipe—that would be the mildest strategy.
Exclusion, sanctions… or even dirtier methods.
It was foreseeable that if Luwei continued to do nothing and let the impact of the Giant Strength Potion escalate,
within a few days, the number of spies and assassins in the Kares Territory would exceed the number of residents…
If that still didn’t achieve their goals—
They would even not hesitate to start a war!
Even if it meant erasing the Kingdom of Avalon and making the Giant Strength Potion recipe disappear!
That’s right, Luwei, who knew the game’s mechanics inside out, was well aware of these traps.
It was a big pitfall:
In the early stages of the game, a player receives a system-rewarded technology and eagerly monopolizes the market, harming the interests of other factions.
Then they get carried away by the huge profits, exclaiming that the game is nothing special and the gameplay is too simple.
In the end, they meet a miserable fate—unscrupulous assassinations and sanctions… then forced to hand over the recipe, disclose the technology, and completely lose control of the market.
Even if they are lucky enough to avoid the worst outcome, their development will lag behind others, step by step, until they fall behind the entire server’s progress.
This kind of design was actually quite realistic, because in the early game, players simply didn’t have enough military force to swallow such a big cake all at once.
Negotiation, bargaining… that was the essence of the game’s strategy!
A confident light shone in Luwei’s eyes; she had already formulated a complete set of countermeasures…